Synopsis

Focus on the promises of God to overcome the voices of insecurity, fear, condemnation, and discouragement….

This guide will help you and your small group replace negative internal chatter with the promises of God. Join Pastor Steven Furtick as he walks you and your group through the issues of insecurity, fear, condemnation, and discouragement, and learn as he offers strategies for combating them.

Designed for both individuals and groups for use with the companion DVD, which consists of six video sessions.

Based on the life-changing book, Crash the Chatterbox, this participant’s guide includes a number of special features in each session:· Video response prompts· Group discussion questions· Session closing prayers· After-session activitiesThis guide also includes the following bonus sections to help group members carry the message of each session into their daily lives:· My Time with God· My Action Steps

A leader’s help guide makes it easy for any group member to conduct the group study of Crash the Chatterbox.

The questions and reflections in this guide will help you see for yourself why listening to God’s voice above all others is the most important habit you can ever develop.

Excerpt

Session 1 Introduction The Chatterbox

This session’s key idea: We can never tune out all the chatter— the lies in our minds—but we can learn to tune in to God’s voice. ####

I read online that the average person has more than sixty thousand thoughts per day and over 80 percent of these thoughts are negative. Is that accurate? I don’t know. But let’s think together about the possibility that 80 percent of our thoughts are not only devoid of any power to help us but are also actively working against us. When we allow our thoughts to go unchecked, a steady drip of lies cements the wrong patterns within our minds, building a Berlin Wall of bad beliefs.

I wonder how much of its forty-eight-thousand-word quota your chatterbox has already filled today.

Did you hear it in the closet while you were getting dressed, telling you that it doesn’t matter what you put on, that nothing will look good on you because you’re too flabby, too bony, too pale, too old, or, in a single word, defective?

Did you hear it in the office where you work or in the home where you raise your children, telling you there’s no point in trying so hard because no one notices anyway?

Do you hear it loudest at the end of the day, when mistakes and regrets and missteps can bounce around the room unobstructed by progress or perspective?

You sounded really stupid when…How will you ever recover from…Why would anybody want to be around a person like you,who…God must be awfully disappointed in the way you… We all have a chatterbox. How we respond to it will make the difference between a life spent floundering around in lies and regrets or a life that’s making steady progress toward fulfilling God’s desires for us.

About Steven Furtick

Steven Furtick is the founder and lead pastor of Elevation Church.

In just under seven years, Elevation Church has grown to more than 10,000 people in weekly attendance, meeting at seven locations in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. Elevation has been named one of the fastest growing Churches in America by Outreach Magazine for each of the past six years.

Pastor Steven has been privileged to minister to a global audience, speaking at conferences and churches around the world, including Catalyst Conference, Hillsong Conference, and the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling book, Greater, and the nationally acclaimed Sun Stand Still.